Tires

[Slow Six]

I need new tires before winter and have pretty well decided to go with the Michelin LTX M/S since they are now available. I was calling around today for prices and a couple of the tire places were quoting prices on some Firestones and the Toyo Open Country. These two brands were considerably less than the Michelins but my question is am I getting what I pay for? I am on my 2nd set of (not) Good for a Year tires and with a fair amount of tread left the sidewalls are splitting and the front tires are cupping. The local Good Year shop said they would adjust the one that is splitting but that puts 1 new tire in with older tires and than another one will go and all I am left with is a mix of junk rubber. I would like a few replies from anyone who has had any experience with any of these tires. I do a mix of driving on pavement, gravel, a lot of winter driving in all conditions and a lot of trailering. Also I would like to hear from anyone with the Good Years that have started to split or crack on the sidewalls as to how long the tire will stay in one piece once this defects show up as I have lots of extra wheels and I would like to try and run these out next summer.

 

[MRosinski]

I've always had great luck with michelins and to me they are worth the money. The goodyear on pop's dually are also cracking pretty bad.

 

[Jengle]

I just picked up another set of the Michelins, off Ebay. My current set has 63k on them and wore down perfectly even, no cupping or sidewall problems. They do ok in winter, probably not as good as a more aggressive tread would do, but I think the weight of the Cummins offsets that. I ran them in up to 8" of snow, with no problems.

 

[MMeier]

Goodyear GSA's

slow 6 , and anyone else interested. My original Gy's at 25k started to split, 1/2 inch out from the bead, just the fronts. Went to GY and was told "my truck is very heavy and the front tires allow the truck to steer". Man o man, and to think someone probably wasted good money on this clown and sent him to school to learn such things!!! So GY, being the nice folk they are, offered to " adjust" out all 6, not with out a fight mind you, still cost me darn near $1000 to replace 6 tires that had over half thier useful tread left!!! second set, at ~45k or so started to cup on the inside and outside edges and developed a very strange "step" against one of the main grooves ,Just the fronts now again. Back to GY, nope nothing wrong with the tires,. must be the truck, got raped for $135 or so to flip the fronts and outside rears , balance, and rotate. Go to well known shop, got truck looked at , nope, perfect, toe off just a CH on the front, didn't even charge me to adjust !! Well. 6 days and 2900 miles later, same cupping action again, back to GY, almost kill the clown after we get into whats at fault and whats not, this was after I went back to front end shop and had truck checked out again, put a set of shocks on AGAIN, but still appear to be getting worse, find out after next trip to OKC and back. Located a set with only 2200 miles on them, all 7 for $1000, caps, rings, nuts, everything. might get them until I look closer at a set of Rickson's or Brentz or ??. . Buddy is getting a set of bolt-on Alcoa's 19. 5"'s for his Duralax, might see if they will have a set for the Dodge. O. K. , I'll shut up for a bit !!

 

[Grizzly]

I like Michelins, but they are too pricey. The tire that was best rated on Consumer Reports for our trucks was the Dunlop Rover about 5 years ago and that's what I put on my 95 Dodge/Cummins dually. They were great, got lot of miles on them and were $40. 00 cheaper than Michelins. When it come time to retire my 05, I will consider Dunlop again.